Local authorities do not understand the recreational needs of their communities and must improve the financial management of facilities such as swimming pools, football pitches and gyms, the Audit...
The Scottish Executive has been told to review thoroughly its flagship policy of free personal care for the elderly after an inquiry found councils have insufficient funds to meet demand.
Mental health trusts are more likely to break even than acute hospitals but they must strengthen their financial management, the Audit Commission said this week.
Social landlords should save at least 10% in costs after the Housing Corporation announced it was meeting all 48 recommendations made in a major review of regulation.
Community planning partnerships in the public sector are finding it difficult to improve services because of their complex remit, Audit Scotland has found.
Almost 5 million families are missing out on state-assisted childcare because of current tax credit arrangements, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research.
Some of the government's main health service reforms have contributed to NHS deficits and should be shelved, according to the head of the UK's 32,000 senior hospital doctors.
NHS foundation trusts are set for confrontations with primary care trusts after it was revealed they were owed up to £28m in payments for patient care.
The Department for Communities and Local Government is considering a fundamental overhaul of local authority pensions potentially creating a new scheme with retirement payments linked to employees...
The university lecturers' pay dispute, which threatened to disrupt examinations for students across the country, has been settled after trade union leaders accepted the improved offer first tabled by...
The NHS overspent its budget by more than £500m in 2005/06 and now has an underlying historic net deficit of £1.1bn, according to Department of Health figures.
Councils will stand a better chance of securing a slice of business regeneration funding if they look at the lessons to emerge from earlier bids, researchers are warning.
Cabinet Office officials backed away from inflating savings targets for Whitehall's shared services programme because it was difficult to reflect improvements in services delivered, Public Finance...
Local Government Secretary Ruth Kelly this week delayed the sector's white paper until the autumn, allowing for a more radical assessment of plans to devolve powers to cities and town halls.
Town hall leaders have given cautious backing to government plans announced this week to dock the housing benefit of antisocial residents who refuse to undertake 'rehabilitation'.
The Liberal Democrats this week set out a radical new package of tax measures in a striking change of direction and a bid to win the backing of the low paid and middle Britain.
Serious consideration should be given to alternatives to custody for certain prisoners in order to alleviate prison overcrowding, senior MPs said this week.
The quango running Northern Ireland's national museums and galleries has been criticised by the Northern Ireland Audit Office for the poor quality of its stored items.
British citizens frustrated by the lack of dentist provision might soon be able to receive treatments and check-ups throughout the European Union and charge the cost back to the NHS, Public Finance...
